2HG issues are known and there's no timetable for when they're getting fixed, if ever. Some have said it actually got even worse in this update. It sucks but it's better to just avoid it for now.
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Dear god the shuffling on this game has gotten worse. I've lost count the amount of times I've started a game with 1-2 lands and then mulligan-ed myself down to 1 card to see if it got any better. 5-6 restarts and then I'll get a starting hand with 5-6 lands and if I play it, then I'm guaranteed to get nothing but lands for the first 4-6 turns. If the shuffling were truly random you shouldn't be seeing patterns, when you start predicting when lands are dealt you know the shuffling is glitched
New bug: when playing ranked, my decks will fail to draw land or draw nothing but land.
More seriously, I've had an opponent freeze the game by waiting out the blue response timer, so I had to quit and take a loss or wait potentially forever.
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I really like this game, but it's going to be really annoying until WOTC actually puts some money into it. Which may never happen depending on what "Digital Next" is. WOTC is pitching to investors a digital product, so some people think it will be a new version of MTGO that tries to compete with Hearthstone and the other popular digital games.
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I've been seeing games where the opponent just does NOTHING, and wait till you get bore3d and leave, padding their wins. It's pretty annoying.
I've had people try this on me, and I just find something else to do while I wait for them (check my email or play a game on my tablet, play a game on my DS, read a book/magazine, all while keeping an eye on the screen in case something happens). They inevitably give up first.
I've been noticing something since the Kaladesh update, it feels like the AI may be stacking its deck when playing against it in hard mode. I am losing more because the AI often top decks exactly what it needs to wreck me. Normally I'd just write this off as variance, but after rebuilding one of my processor decks and playing against it with the AI I find that if I land a first turn Sludge Crawler or Salvage Drone and connect with it, the ingest exiles the top card of the AI's library and it is 80% of the time a card that would be on curve for the AI and as a result the ingest ends ups completely screwing over the AI's curve and winning me the game.
The AI's deck is not randomized. It is sorted for land and mana-curve, at least for the hand-draw and first few cards. As a demonstrative example -- how many times have you seen the AI mulligan?
Compare the AI's starting behaviour in offline mode to what happens when a player drops out of Versus mode and the AI takes over.
The AI's deck is not randomized. It is sorted for land and mana-curve, at least for the hand-draw and first few cards. As a demonstrative example -- how many times have you seen the AI mulligan?
I don't buy this. I see the AI mulligan often enough that I don't think the deck is sorted at all. Keep in mind the game doesn't show you the AI mulliganing, they just start off with 6 or 5 (or even 4) cards in their hand.
It feels like the AI may be stacking its deck when playing against it in hard mode.
If I remember correctly, previous versions of the game did use "deck stacking" to differentiate between easy/medium/hard, but not in the way you're describing. Lower difficulty levels would make the AI start the game with specific cards at the bottom of the library, and hard (or "planeswalker" or whatever it was called) would just start the game with a normally shuffled deck. I've seen the AI mulligan down to 5 often enough in this game that I don't think the deck is truly "stacked" on hard mode.
Rather than start a new bugs topic I just thought I'd ask here. I'm playing Magic Duels on an iPad Air 2 and I'm being plagued by a bug that crashes the app every time I start it up. This bug will keep me from launching the app for several days in a row and then will go away for a few days. I only recently figured out that the game always stops crashing Sunday afternoon, after the community quest resets and then will be playable for several days after before the crashes start back up. This all has lead me to believe that once the community reaches the weekly quest goal this game becomes non-responsive to me until the community quest goal is reset.
I keep having to exit game every time I want to start a new 2 headed giant game
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More seriously, I've had an opponent freeze the game by waiting out the blue response timer, so I had to quit and take a loss or wait potentially forever.
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I've had people try this on me, and I just find something else to do while I wait for them (check my email or play a game on my tablet, play a game on my DS, read a book/magazine, all while keeping an eye on the screen in case something happens). They inevitably give up first.
Anyone else find this to be the case?
The AI's deck is not randomized. It is sorted for land and mana-curve, at least for the hand-draw and first few cards. As a demonstrative example -- how many times have you seen the AI mulligan?
Compare the AI's starting behaviour in offline mode to what happens when a player drops out of Versus mode and the AI takes over.
I don't buy this. I see the AI mulligan often enough that I don't think the deck is sorted at all. Keep in mind the game doesn't show you the AI mulliganing, they just start off with 6 or 5 (or even 4) cards in their hand.
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